Gretna

My attention to the news has been sporadic, so I've only just learned that it was the Gretna police, not the National Guard, who blocked off the bridge during the evacuation fiasco. It was an unforgivably stupid and heartless act. If they didn't want New Orleans' riffraff in their dinky little town, they could have sealed off the relevant exits of the Westbank Expressway. Instead, they totally cut off the main artery out of downtown. So not only could no one get to Gretna, they couldn't get to Algiers or Westwego or on a bus to Houston. Unbelievable.

On a happier note, Alex Chilton has checked in. I mean, not to me--to the Easley's in Memphis.